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POLITICAL ESSAYS
Abramoff Legerdemain
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Writing about World War 1 --the
so-called Great War-- Winston
Churchill detailed what "is re-
quired for the composition of a
great commander" [1]:
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"not only massive common sense
and reasoning power,

not only imagination,
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but also an element of legerde-
main, an original and sinister
touch, which leaves the enemy
puzzled as well as beaten."
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Abramoff's not a great comman-
der, but a February 23d Boston
Globe newsstory [2] indicates
he may have served a leader
whose legerdemain resulted in
a major military defeat for
The Superpower on September
11, 2001.
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"A subpoena in the case,...says
the US government is seeking
information on Abramoff-related
activities with 'any depart-
ment, ministry, or office hold-
er or agent of the Russian gov-
ernment.'"
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"The subpoena seeks information
about ties between Abramoff-re-
lated groups and a Moscow ener-
gy giant that is called Nafta-
sib, a major supplier to the
Russian military."
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"Senior Naftasib executives
helped arrange a trip Abramoff
took to Moscow in 1997 with...
Tom DeLay, a longtime Abramoff
friend."
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1997? That's b-e-f-o-r-e 2001.
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"...a key connection between
Abramoff and Russia is an ob-
scure Dutch firm called Voor
Huisen.

"Voor Huisen was one of Abram-
off's biggest clients, paying
$2.1 million in lobbying fees
to Abramoff and his partners
from 2001 to 2004....
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"...there has been no explana-
tion as to why the company had
paid such large fees...."
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"...several of Abramoff's form-
er partners...said...they were
told the Dutch company was con-
nected to Naftasib executives."
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"...reports that Abramoff filed
said he lobbied for Voor Huisen
on matters ranging
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from aviation safety [!]
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to disaster preparedness [!!]
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to unspecified issues 'pertain-
ing to defense and security.'
[!!!]."
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"In addition to being a lobby-
ist, Abramoff registered in
1999 as a foreign agent."
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1999? That's b-e-f-o-r-e 2001.
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From my 2002 essay "There's
Always A Way" [3]:
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[Russia] showed the 911 heroes
exactly how it could be done;
and coughed up the green to get
it done.
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Since Russia has enough nukes
to blow up the world, the Wash-
ington cowards decided to blame
it on "bin Laden."
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[1] Page 498 of volume 1 of
Churchill's multivolume sur-
vey of *The Great War.*
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[2]
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February 23, 2006
Boston Globe
Abramoff ties to Russians
probed
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http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/02/23/abra
moff_ties_to_russians_probed?mode=PF
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[3]
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoliticalEssays/message/671
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